send – English noun declension

English noun forms of send

Noun: send
Singularsend
Pluralsends

Sample Sentences

  • In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […] [1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification, page 71:]
  • Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.
  • thus we drifted, steadily trending with the send of each giant surge further and deeper into the icy regions of the south-west [1877, William Clark Russell, The Frozen Pirate:]
  • the send of the sea [1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:]
  • The send of the sea was driving the boat's head round to starboard. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • Why you're another bird that's fat again. No competition that's, that's the send. [2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye-ti (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sende (“to send”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk senda (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith. See: Old English Nouns 'sendan', Old English Nouns 'sand'.